International workshop on The Ladder
Upcoming International workshop on The Ladder of Saint John Climacus in April 2019
Upcoming International workshop on The Ladder of Saint John Climacus in April 2019
March 30 (old calendar) / April 12 (new) Great Lent. Ven. John Climacus of Sinai, author of The Ladder (6th c.). St. Sophróny (Sophronius), Bishop of Irkutsk (1771). Prophet Joad (1 Kings 13:11—10th c. B.C.). Apostles Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, Cæsar, and Epaphroditus, of the Seventy (1st c.). St. Eubula, mother of St. Panteleimon (ca. 303). Ven. John the Silent of St. Sabbas’ Monastery (6th c.). St. Zosimas, Bishop of Syracuse (ca.
While in Kyiv as a representative of the Orthodox Faculty of Belgrade at a conference of the Ecclesiastical Academy of Kyiv on March 26, 2019, Nikolaj Sapsaj interviewed Metropolitan Onufriy of Kyiv. Topics include the events that have marked his ministry so far, the relationships with the Patriarchate of Serbia, and the situation in Ukraine.
Early March 2019, the French monthly Esprit published an article by researcher Céline Marangé working at the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM, Paris). It is entitled « The autocephalous Church of Ukraine » and gives a summary of the Orthodox ecclesial situation in Ukraine. Please find here our English translation: The January 5, 2019 recognition of a new Church in Ukraine is of great symbolic significance for the country, still prey to war five years
March 12 (old calendar) / March 25 (new) Great Lent. Ven. Theophanes the Confessor, of Sigriane (818). Righteous Phineas, grandson of Aaron (ca. 1500 B.C.). St. Gregory Dialogus, Pope of Rome (604). Ven. Simeon the New Theologian (1021). SAINT THEOPHANES THE CONFESSOR Saint Theophanes the Confessor was born in 759 at Constantinople into a pious and renowned family. His father was a relative of the Byzantine emperor Leo the Isaurian
March 12 Great Lent. Ven. Theophanes the Confessor, of Sigriane (818). Righteous Phineas, grandson of Aaron (ca. 1500 B.C.). St. Gregory Dialogus, Pope of Rome (604). Ven. Simeon the New Theologian (1021). SAINT THEOPHANES THE CONFESSOR Saint Theophanes the Confessor was born in 759 at Constantinople into a pious and renowned family. His father was a relative of the Byzantine emperor Leo the Isaurian (717-741). Three years after Theophanes was
In a letter sent on January 14 to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana and all Albania called for a pan-Orthodox Council « as soon as possible » to avoid « the obvious risk of a painful schism ». Please find here the whole letter in English. « Most holy and divine archbishop Bartholomew of Constantinople, the New Rome, and ecumenical patriarch, very dear brother in Christ our God, concelebrant of our mediocrity, embracing
In a letter sent to Patriarch Bartholomew, the Slav-speaking “RAINBOW” party asked for his permission to celebrate the Divine Liturgy in Macedonian in the parishes belonging to the “minority of ethnic Macedonians in Greece”. This is in the context of the Prespa Agreement and the official recognition of the “Macedonian language”. The letter specified that historically, “Metropolitans in Northern Greece were the first to destroy old Macedonian Orthodox churches which